books.google.com - Martin Luther King, Jr., had hoped to be a Baptist preacher in a Southern city. Instead, by the time he was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39, he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and had led millions of people in a nonviolent movement that shattered forever the Southern system of segregation...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Words_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.html?id=irMxJS36904C&q=eye+for+an+eye&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.